An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
After a few releases thin on new features this version of Thrive has focused purely on new features. The main 3 major new features are: endosymbiosis, day/night cycle enabled by default, and toxin customization. These add much more variety to the microbe stage and hopefully make the game significantly more enjoyable. Endosymbiosis allows you to create an endosymbiont organelle from another species giving a free copy of that organelle and unlocking placing that organelle. Day/night cycle has been polished up with some new GUI features in the editor to make it easier to determine if you can survive the night and as such is now enabled by default. The toxin customization feature allows using different toxin types that have different effects for more interesting toxin gameplay. Besides the major features we also have a variety of smaller changes and bug fixes (including one fix for the game freezing during gameplay).
To play this early test build you need to right click Thrive in the Steam client and in the properties select "beta" as the version to play.
Please provide any feedback you have about this new upcoming release, we are especially interested in feedback related to balancing of the new features as well as any major game breaking bugs. You can provide feedback in the comments below or on the dedicated thread on our community forums: https://community.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/t/0-6-7-release-candidate-testing/7497